You mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
BETTE DAVISYou’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
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There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
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Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
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There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
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To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
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You know what nostalgia is, don’t you? It’s basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain.
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I will never be below the title.
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Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
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Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
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I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.
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Pray to God and say the lines.
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I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn’t dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.
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There’s only one way to work — like hell.
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Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
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Mother of three; divorcee; American. Twenty years experience as an actress in motion pictures. Mobile still and more affable than rumour would have it. Wants steady employment in Hollywood. (Has had Broadway). References upon request.
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